Hey trans, no binary and queer people of Mastodon!
I'm planning a workshop on gender sensitive software development together with a non binary friend. Since we're both living in Germany we look at the world through similar lenses.
If you had the chance to tell a group of software developers one thing that would make your life better when dealing with the results of their work, what would it be?
We know the obvious things like "diverse salutations", "all genders", "no deadnaming" - what else?
I'm planning a workshop on gender sensitive software development together with a non binary friend. Since we're both living in Germany we look at the world through similar lenses.
If you had the chance to tell a group of software developers one thing that would make your life better when dealing with the results of their work, what would it be?
We know the obvious things like "diverse salutations", "all genders", "no deadnaming" - what else?
Illi A. Heger
Als Antwort auf Tobias Geyer • • •another question
"does this need to be gendered at all?"
often third and fourth alter atives are added to something that does not need to be gendered
from
women and men are asked...
to
everybody using our facilities is asked to...
(or in German "alle" instead of "jede*r" or "jeder")
Jaddy mag das.
Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:
Als Antwort auf Tobias Geyer • • •Never ask for "legal gender" or "legal sex". If it needs to match some specific document or database, say that.
I live in the UK, the legal system here has no unambiguous way to determine my legal gender/sex because my foreign birth certificate says nonbinary and my passport says X. I'm currently waiting for judges to decide whether they're going to honor the existing law as it is written and recognize me as nonbinary.
Different identity documents may have different gender/sex and/or different names.
If you need a binary gender to interoperate with other systems, ask for the person's actual gender and then if it's nonbinary, ask what they'd be most comfortable with where that would cause problems. If it doesn't need to match documents, "random" should be an option.
Titles, as above, should be inclusive and allow a list of fallbacks to be provided.
Don't assume pronouns match gender/sex.
Don't use "sir or madam" to generically address people.
Don't make assumptions about anatomy. Things you assume are mutually exclusive aren't, even beyond what you think I'm talking about.
Jaddy mag das.